What exactly is going on in the Gulf of Mexico? When there are reports of media blackouts, then the natural reaction is to start investigating, and in the current environmental catastrophe, the more stones one turns, the more horrific the potential scenario becomes. While scare mongering is as pointless as it is dangerous, the truth remains that the media have the duty to inform.

The United States Senate has called for Britain to hold a full and independent enquiry into whether BP lobbied for the release of the Libyan held in Scotland over the Lockerbie bombing. This position reveals two things: ignorance (the jurisdiction was not a British question, but a Scottish one) and arrogance (suppose the Senate held an independent inquiry into the Iraq War as Britain has done?)

The ten UN judges at the International Court of Justice who supported the opinion that Kosovo's Declaration of Independence on February 17, 2008 does not violate general international law are, at best, incompetent charlatans; at worst, they are towing the line of the gray, malevolent forces which wish to create a Kosovo Mafia State in the Balkans. And after all, anyone can declare himself the King of Saturn and issue certificates selling its rings...

The "ruling" of the International Court of Justice on the status of Kosovo's independence holds as much influence over international law, creates as much jurisprudence, as the "opinion" of a first-year law student opining on some hypothetical case in an academic debate. Today's "ruling" is in fact no more than a non-binding statement after a "hearing" among 14 judges at the ICJ. A "hearing" whose results had to be postponed because of the severe degree of disagreement among those involved.